Beyond the Sun
- Chris Isaak
- Band Name: Chris Isaak
- Record Label: Vanguard
- Release Date: Oct 18, 2011
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- Summary: The singer-songwriter's latest release from Sun Records is a cover album of hit songs that were originally recorded by such artist as Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis Presley.
- Record Label: Vanguard
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Roots Rock
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Positive: 8 out of 13
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Mixed: 5 out of 13
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Jan 26, 2012100A 19-track behemoth of (mainly) Sun Records covers, executed so faithfully that they could have been mouldering in a Memphis vault for 50 years.
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Jan 23, 201280BTS is a covers album recorded at and paying tribute to Memphis's Sun Studios, deploying tumbleweed guitar twang, and occasionally, the falsetto.
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May 31, 201260Isaak, whose singing voice is naturally full and resonant, is most at home with the Presley tunes... but the Lewis and Perkins homages don't quite add up. [Jan 2012, p.91]
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